Atrium Carceri & Kammarheit – Colossus (Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematic, Dark-Ambient.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Swedish musicians Simon Heath (Atrium Carceri) and Pär Boström (Kammarheit) have already worked together on past works. “Colossus” is driven by forgotten civilizations resulting in seven songs.
Content: This is an extremely dark sound universe carried by deep, vibrating sound waves accentuated by cold strings. Power has been infused by a few epic blasts.
+ + + : This album, first of all brings two masters of the Cinematic/Dark-Ambient genre (already) together. The tracks have been progressively built up, but always feature a hostile and tormented atmosphere. This is not an album to get in a happy mood, but that’s not what lovers of this music genre expect. “Colossus” has a haunting sensation which is masterly created by a perfect balance between the different elements of the composition. I like the vibrating sound waves which makes me think of an imaginary inferno while the epic sound treatments have a strong, dramatic touch.
– – – : The album is missing a total climax, but you’ll be never disappointed.
Conclusion: “Colossus” is a perfect ambassador to represent the sonic universe of Cryo Chamber: tormented Cinematic music.
Best songs: “Colossus”, “Subpulse”, “Vaults”, “In The Black Stone”;
Rate: 7½.
Artists: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063521439906 / www.facebook.com/kammarheitofficial
Label: www.cryochamberlabel.com / www.facebook.com/cryochamber
Cryo Chamber released “Colossus” on 15 February 2022, digitally and on CD. The seven tracks are “Subpulse”, “The Earthen Fortress”, “Colossus”, “Interwoven”, “Vaults”, “In the Black Stone” and “Quietude”. Heath and Boström wrote, produced and performed the album together, Heath handled artwork and mastering, and Boström wrote the booklet text.
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About Atrium Carceri and Kammarheit
Atrium Carceri is the dark ambient project of Swedish musician Simon Heath, who also runs the Cryo Chamber label. Kammarheit is the project of Swedish musician Pär Boström, who launched the separate Bonini Bulga project through Cyclic Law in 2018.
The two had already recorded together with Apocryphos on “Onyx” in 2015 and on “Echo” in 2017, both issued by Cryo Chamber. Both projects also took part in the label’s large-scale collaborative album “Nyarlathotep” in 2016.
“Colossus” arrived in February 2022 as their first album billed to the two projects alone. They followed it with “Apparatus” on Cryo Chamber in 2024. Heath described his working methods in the Click Interview with Simon Heath from Atrium Carceri in March 2024.
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